The death toll in the stone quarry collapse in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district has climbed to seven with another body being recovered from the rubble, officials said on Tuesday.

The seventh body has been identified as that of Gulab Kharwar (32), a resident of Obra police station area of Sonbhadra. Kharwar's body was recovered on Monday evening.

Rescue operations are still underway at the site.

UP minister Sanjeev Kumar Gond and Robertsganj MP Chotelal Kharwar have claimed that around a dozen workers could be trapped in the rubble after a portion of the quarry operated by Krishna Mining Works collapsed on Saturday evening.

The state government has announced a three-tier probe into the incident by the police, mining and district administration.

UP minister Ravindra Jaiswal, who met t

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